2800 Europe Media Monitor (EMM) reads and analyses around 40.000 new news items per day from around 1000 sites worldwide. The text of the items, extracted using EMM's own text extraction algorithm, is indexed using Lucene (see http://lucene.apache.org). Please make sure your area of interest is not already covered by one of the pre-defined categories (alerts). If it is, we kindly ask you to use the feed from that category as this significantly reduces the load on our system. This site is a joint project of DG-JRC and DG-COMM. The information on this site is subject to a disclaimer (see http://europa.eu/geninfo/legal_notices_en.htm). Please acknowledge EMM when (re)using this material https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/06/us/cynthia-ann-leroux-delta-wildfire.htmlA woman was arrested on Wednesday and charged with starting a fire in 2018 that burned more than 63,000 acres, damaged 20 homes and injured two people in Northern California, the authorities said. The woman, Cynthia Ann Leroux, was arrested at her home in Mountain Gate, Calif., Shasta County and Cal Fire officials said in a news conference .Thu, 06 May 2021 15:36:00 +0200nytimes-47d412b10f817423be9403c8234bcc6420210506153600https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2021-05-06/editorial-there-is-no-droughtlast month in Sonoma and Mendocino counties because of severe drop-offs in the winter rains that once had been counted on to fill reservoirs in the Russian River watershed, north of the San Francisco Bay Area. Like most other California reservoirs, those human-made lakes were built in the 20th....Thu, 06 May 2021 14:17:00 +0200latimes-64654b1f9ad9781bd60d7ea89fafd5df20210506141700https://global.foreignaffairs.co.nz/2021/05/04/mil-osi-russia-ministry-of-emergency-situations-from-may-1-to-may-3-the-safety-of-more-than-7-thousand-festive-events-was-ensured/On May 4, a weekly conference call was held under the leadership of the First Deputy Minister of EMERCOM of Russia Alexander Chupriyan. During the event, it was noted that from April 30 to May 11, the forces of the Russian Emergencies Ministry were transferred to an enhanced mode of operation.Tue, 04 May 2021 14:15:00 +0200global-foreignaffairs-1c446c54b26711b018014420ac97b22e20210504141500https://scitechdaily.com/wildfires-and-smoke-cause-black-sky-in-siberia/Numerous fires have filled skies with smoke, causing air quality issues in Omsk. Russian emergency services have reported an abnormally high number of fires in the Omsk oblast of southwest Siberia. On April 22, 2021, the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA ’s Aqua satellite captured this image of fires in the region.Sat, 01 May 2021 16:37:00 +0200scitechdaily-719bc090f289df9542d1962d7474aea920210501163700